nds of the unjust have wrought. We make mention of you for the sake
of God, and remind you of His signs, and announce unto you the things
ordained for such as are nigh unto Him in the most sublime Paradise and
the all-highest Heaven, and I, verily, am the Announcer, the Omniscient.
He hath come for your salvation, and hath borne tribulations that ye may
ascend, by the ladder of utterance, unto the summit of understanding....
Peruse, with fairness and justice, that which hath been sent down. It
will, verily, exalt you through the truth, and will cause you to behold
the things from which ye have been withheld, and will enable you to quaff
His sparkling Wine.

"THOSE divines ... who are truly adorned with the ornament..."

THOSE divines ... who are truly adorned with the ornament of knowledge and
of a goodly character are, verily, as a head to the body of the world, and
as eyes to the nations. The guidance of men hath, at all times, been and
is dependent upon these blessed souls.

"THE divine whose conduct is upright, and the sage who..."

THE divine whose conduct is upright, and the sage who is just, are as the
spirit unto the body of the world. Well is it with that divine whose head
is attired with the crown of justice, and whose temple is adorned with the
ornament of equity.

"THE divine who hath seized and quaffed the most holy..."

THE divine who hath seized and quaffed the most holy Wine, in the name of
the sovereign Ordainer, is as an eye unto the world. Well is it with them
who obey him, and call him to remembrance.

"GREAT is the blessedness of that divine that hath not..."

GREAT is the blessedness of that divine that hath not allowed knowledge to
become a veil between him and the One Who is the Object of all knowledge,
and who, when the Self-Subsisting appeared, hath turned with a beaming
face towards Him. He, in truth, is numbered with the learned. The inmates
of Paradise seek the blessing of his breath, and his lamp sheddeth its
radiance over all who are in heaven and on earth. He, verily, is numbered
with the inheritors of the Prophets. He that beholdeth him hath, verily,
beheld the True One, and he that turneth towards him hath, verily, turned
towards God, the Almighty, the All-Wise.

"O CONCOURSE of divines! Ye shall not henceforth behold..."

O CONCOURSE of divines! Ye shall not henceforth behold yourselves
possessed of any power, inasmuch as We have seized